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...that’s neither here nor there. I couldn’t wait to see what would fill the vacancy on JFK Street. The much-hoped-for all-night diner of yesteryear? A gallery? A reasonably priced sports...
Doesn’t matter. Ted Donato ’91 has already brought the buzz of yesteryear back to Harvard hockey...
...history? Baseball is all history: comparing today's players with yesteryear's is among the great pleasures of the sport. That makes baseball fans more fervent lovers of tradition than Tevye. They can cite, as Scripture, the career home-run totals of Ruth (714) and Hank Aaron (755). And they're not always eager to see records broken. So old-time fans are skeptical of modern-era players, who have had as many 50-homer seasons in the past decade as occurred in the previous century. Bonds, 39, set the all-time season home-run record...
Shojo manga, the cute-but-cool subgenre targeted at girls, are a big part of that boom. Shojo typically feature 13-to-16-year-old female protagonists and are generally written and drawn by women but have little in common with the corny romance titles of yesteryear. Shojo plots focus on love and relationships, and often include adventures in magical worlds outside the humdrum realities of school and home. Mecca Moore, 13, of Los Angeles, buys manga every week and says she spends $1,000 a year on the stuff. "[Shojo] tell a story in art that makes a person...
...Shojo comics have little in common with the corny romance titles of yesteryear. These books are for an audience like the characters they depict, independent-minded girls for whom romance becomes another complication in a busy life...